Things have been a little hectic the past couple of weeks, so my apologies for the silent treatment. The main bit of news is from work: the project I’ve been on for the past two and a half years has finally released code to our production servers. Wooo-hooo! At the moment, we’re in our so-called stabilization phase where we’re letting the users bang on the application and shake out any of the last remaining bugs (our QA people were very good, so we have had a remarkably small number of bugs). I have to say, this particular project has been a very long haul for me (if this is any indication, my beard has started to turn gray and the hair on my head is noticeably thiner than it was when we started), so it is a big relief for me to finally see it finished. Partly to celebrate the release, and partly to start to prepare for the next phases, I am actually up in Oregon this week meeting with various parts of the team.
To try to have a little fun this week, I took a little extra vacation time over the weekend and went up to Seattle to visit with my friend, André (aka Ozymandias). We bummed around a rather chilly and damp town, strolled around the Fremont neighborhood during the tail-end of their Solstice festival (and got an eye-full of some unfortunate fashions… hint: kilts are in for the men folk, but total nudity will do in a pinch… or not).
On the way back down to Oregon for my meetings this week, I was going to swing by Mount Saint Helens (I have been coming to the area for years and have never made it there), but the weather was less than cooperative. Combine the lack of visibility with some camera problems (hint: if you have digital SLR, don’t try to clean the sensor yourself), and I’m afraid you’ll have to do without pictures of me trotting around the north-west. Sorry… maybe next time.
Oh, incidentally, I just discovered that my e-mail address here at tailrecursive was forwarding to the wrong mailbox… so if you sent me anything recently and I didn’t respond, that is probably why. Sorry for any inconvenience.